Haar

It can't have been much fun sailing in the Sound yesterday afternoon....

....not with ships like the Clansman (above) steaming in the opposite direction.

Although it turned into a beautiful afternoon, the haar persisted into the evening and is back out there today. We had been hoping for some rain but it hasn't come. Our gardens are beginning to suffer.

Other ships to be seen in the Sound recently have included the Pole Star (above), one of the Northern Lighthouse Board's boats. She had spent the day servicing Red Rocks buoy out in the middle of the Sound, after which she spent the night anchored off the Ormsaigbeg shore.

And this ship went down the Sound on Friday. She's Oceanwide Expeditions' Plancius, another ship designed to navigate in difficult waters. She was originally built as an oceanographic research ship for the Royal Dutch Navy, and has just returned from her first cruising season in the Antarctic. Shortly she'll be off to the high Arctic. At present she's cruising in the difficult waters of the Sound of Mull.